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The supreme court Wednesday afternoon denied the application for a mandamus to coinpel Judge Padgham to set aside his order declaring the tax sales in Ottawa county for the delinquent taxes of 1895, void, berause the advertisement was published in De Grondwet, a paper printed in the Holand language. The decisión of the court will not resul t in relieving the jroperty from the payment of the deiuquent taxes but will necessitate a new publication in a puper printed in the English language. Although the tax sales for seyeral previous years were advertised in Dutch papers it is not understood that the question eau be raised now. - Free Press. This decisión will also cover all legal notices such as probate notiees. mortgage sales, etc. In some counties of the state the judges have so ruled for some years, but the supreme court has not passed upon the question until now. All estates in which there is danger of litigation, which have been advertised in other than English papers, will have to be readvertised.